Posted months ago:
Try to find and work with an awakened teacher while they are still alive. Life is impermanent and unpredictable. I just received this news about a Zen master in Taiwan, I only just attended his retreat/teaching early this year.
“I don't know if you will have heard the news that 果如法師 passed away in September after (from what I heard from a student of GuoGu 果谷法師) a bicycle accident near the monastery. Thought I'd pass this news your way since you passed through 祖師禪林 not long ago.
_/\_”